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FAWM 2026 Week 3: Mixed Emotions

Combine contrasting emotional cues, such as a fast tempo in a minor key, a static chord progression with a driving rhythm, or dark lyrics set to upbeat music (or vice versa).

Examples: “Boogie Chillun” (John Lee Hooker), “Twisting” (They Might Be Giants), “Walking on Broken Glass” (Eurythmics), “No Children” (The Mountain Goats).

Share your new song at FAWM.ORG!

#FAWM #FAWM2026 #Songwriting #MusicChallenge #MixedEmotions

Programming N' Language Dec 2

Heading back to China. "近乡情更怯" captures my feelings. So... what VPN do you recommend? I am considering something like this 🤔😶‍🌫️🫥

#Homecoming #Travel #MixedEmotions #DigitalSafety #ExpatLife #CultureShock #TravelTech #LongFlight

Ozzie D, NP-hard

Oct 9

What is a word that means "a feeling of equal parts chagrin and relief"?

(Just accidentally marked a mailbox as "read" which held 3200+ unread messages, out of 42500.)

#TipofMyTongue #MixedEmotions #EmailBlackHole

Frank Apr 20, 2025

Het 15jarige muziekkind heeft de jaren 80 ontdekt en dat schalt nu regelmatig rond. #MixedEmotions

Stellar Mar 7, 2025

A mix of rain and sunshine with a mix of emotions. End of a perfect day of ups and downs. #mixedemotions #mixedfeelings #rainandsunshine #workday #workdiary #offwork #selfie

PsyPost Oct 31, 2024

Neuroscience is exploring how your brain lets you experience two opposite feelings at once https://www.psypost.org/neuroscience-is-exploring-how-your-brain-lets-you-experience-two-opposite-feelings-at-once/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Neuroscience #Brain #Emotions #MixedEmotions #CorticalRegions

Neuroscience is exploring how your brain lets you experience two opposite feelings at once

Neuroscientists discovered that while deeper brain areas process emotions as mutually exclusive, cortical regions enable people to experience mixed emotions by integrating complex information, allowing simultaneous feelings like joy and sadness during significant life events.

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Santi Garcia Sep 28, 2024

Study finds that while amygdala and insular cortex process #emotions as opposites, advanced #brain regions can represent #MixedEmotions, allowing us to experience more #complex states. #Psychology #Humans #AI

https://academic.oup.com/cercor/article-abstract/34/4/bhae122/7639057

Neural patterns associated with mixed valence feelings differ in consistency and predictability throughout the brain

Abstract. Mixed feelings, the simultaneous presence of feelings with positive and negative valence, remain an understudied topic. They pose a specific set

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The Lady (La Donna)Aug 20, 2024

I signed up to attend the Harris Walz Milwaukee Rally and watch party. I figured I wouldn't get the email telling me I was accepted with details on the event.
I got the email this morning. I was excited, kind of.
I have chosen not to go. Too stressful to figure out getting there (anxiety?).
A couple of retired friends went - they got there by 2 pm, doors opened at 4 pm. They're excited to be there.
My supervisor is going. I wonder if she and her husband will get in? She was still at the office when I left for the day.
Oh, and I asked my supervisor if they were masking. She said she wasn't. 🫣 😬
I hope she works from home tomorrow. I'm off until Monday after that.
#MixedEmotions